Landquart
Social Worker
- 25 September 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Landquart
Job summary
Join us in Graubünden, Switzerland's unique trilingual canton. This is a chance to work in a diverse environment with great quality of life.
Tasks
- Provide resource-oriented social counseling to individuals and families.
- Support people with addiction issues and their families.
- Assist individuals with protection status S from Ukraine in housing.
Skills
- Completed BSc/FH degree in social work or related field required.
- Strong advisory skills and knowledge in addiction counseling.
- Excellent communication and organizational abilities are essential.
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About the job
The only trilingual canton in Switzerland is economically, culturally and politically diverse. Graubünden, with 7106 km², is the largest canton in Switzerland and offers a high quality of life with 150 valleys, 615 lakes, 140 holiday resorts and countless sunny days per year. The Cantonal Administration of Graubünden is as versatile as our landscape. Bring your unique skills and help shape the future of the Cantonal Administration of Graubünden with us.
Social Worker
Social Office | 80–100 % | Landquart
The cantonal social office fulfils the task of personal social and addiction support on behalf of the municipalities and assists people in accessing economic social assistance. To this end, it operates eight regional social services in the canton’s regions. The regional social service Prättigau/Herrschaft/Fünf Dörfer is responsible for 18 municipalities with a catchment area of 43,000 people.
Social counselling, addiction support and financial assistance (gr.ch)
We are looking for a social worker for the Landquart location from 1 January 2027 or by arrangement.
- Solution- and resource-oriented social counselling of individuals and families in difficult life situations on polyvalent issues
- Counselling of people with addiction problems and their relatives
- Counselling and financial support for persons with S protection status from Ukraine in individual accommodations
- Access to social insurance benefits and economic social assistance
- Cooperation with social authorities and specialised agencies
- Other varied, interesting and responsible tasks
- Completed training as a social worker BSc/FH or a degree in a comparable qualification
- Enjoy working with people from different social and/or cultural backgrounds
- High counselling competence as well as sound expertise in addiction counselling, social assistance law and social insurance
- Outgoing, resilient, team player, good communication, organisational and administrative skills
- Ideally good foreign language skills
- Independent and solution-oriented working style
If you have any questions, Gion Andri Bundi, Head of the regional social service Prättigau/Herrschaft/Fünf Dörfer, Tel. 081 257 66 28, or Laura Steinbacher, social worker, Tel. 081 257 66 32, will be happy to provide information.
Application deadline: 23 October 2026
